Georgia passes bill restricting discussion of race in schools

State representative Matthew Wilson said the bill ‘sets us up not only to be on the wrong side of history and morality, but on the wrong end of litigation.’ Photograph: Nathan Posner/Rex/Shutterstock

The Georgia general assembly has passed a bill targeting the discussion of race in schools that also paves the way for transgender students to be banned from playing sport on girls’ teams, after a late-night legislative session on Monday.

HB1084 bans the teaching of nine so-called “divisive concepts”, including that the US is “fundamentally racist” and that “one race is inherently superior to another race”.